Patents by Inventor Paul Steven Halverson

Paul Steven Halverson has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6970185
    Abstract: A photographer adds explanatory text to a captured image by speaking the text at approximately the time the image is captured by the digital camera. The spoken information is reduced to text by recognizing the user's speech, and is associated with the digital image. Preferably, the digital camera contains an on-board speech reduction capability to produce an intermediate symbolic form expressing the user's speech as a series of basic sounds, or phonemes, which can be later reduced to natural language text by a computer system having access to sophisticated vocabulary lists and syntactical analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2005
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Paul Steven Halverson
  • Publication number: 20030023643
    Abstract: A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for providing context sensitive code ahead input to a user of a computer system. Initially, an entry for a document is received. A context in the document is identified based on a predefined definition of the received entry. The predefined definition associates the entry with a code ahead input. The code ahead input based upon the identified context is then displayed on a display device of the computer system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2001
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Paul Steven Halverson
  • Publication number: 20020101513
    Abstract: A photographer adds explanatory text to a captured image by speaking the text at approximately the time the image is captured by the digital camera. The spoken information is reduced to text by recognizing the user's speech, and is associated with the digital image. Preferably, the digital camera contains an on-board speech reduction capability to produce an intermediate symbolic form expressing the user's speech as a series of basic sounds, or phonemes, which can be later reduced to natural language text by a computer system having access to sophisticated vocabulary lists and syntactical analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2001
    Publication date: August 1, 2002
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Paul Steven Halverson